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If you see the ring-like telltale sign of a Lyme Disease tick bite, get to a doc and get some antibiotics. Early treatment is effective. Anitbiotics do get oversubscribed, but better to take a round unnecessarily then get this crap.

...Seaver’s initial case was extreme — he suffered Bell’s Palsy on the right side of his face, and the doctors told him at the time that it was so severe that after they treated him with antibiotics, he would never have it again. In Seaver’s situation, a less severe case of Bell’s Palsy, doctors felt, might have returned.

I hate to be pedantic but this is a horribly constructed paragraph. Never have what again? Bell's Palsy? The right side of his face? Treatment of antibiotics? And what the hell does he mean by "initial case"? Did Seaver suffer more than one case of Lyme Disease or something? And the last sentence. What the hell does that mean? After treatment with antibiotics, the Bell's Palsy might return? What? Why?

Criminy, I know Bill isn't a doctor but couldn't he have at least reviewed the English for intelligibility?

Yeah. That article was a mess but as a medical student I know the many ways the Lyme bacteria can mess with you. I just can't imagine actually having it. I had a friend get it, though, and he went from an straight-A student into somewhat of a sort of bum with the combination of fatigue and the neurological manifestations. There were other factors at work of course, but Lyme disease is bad news.

And what the hell does he mean by "initial case"? Did Seaver suffer more than one case of Lyme Disease or something?

If you RTFA, yes he initially had Lyme Disease in 1991. The article is poorly written but this is the relevant paragraph:

It was not something Seaver was unfamiliar with, but nevertheless it was a shocking diagnosis. Back in November of 1991, when he was living in Greenwich, Conn., and spending much of his spare time on his favorite hobby — tending to his gardens — Seaver was first diagnosed with the often-debilitating, bacterial disease caused by infectious deer ticks.

Initial symptoms of Lyme disease infections include chills, fever, headache and muscle pain. However, Stage 3 Lyme disease, which can occur months or years after the initial infection, can result in memory loss, speech problems, sleep disorder and an overall feeling of chemical imbalance — all of which Seaver had been experiencing over the last year.

What the article isn't clear on is whether this is a recurrence of the disease he had 22 years ago, or whether he contracted it again.